By Mikael Wood April 15, 2009

Named after his infamous 1975 slab of free-noise tone poetry, Lou Reeds Metal Machine Trio (MM3, if youre nasty) features Reed on guitar, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on live processing. A night of deep noise is what Reed is promising at each of these two concerts, and that means no vocals and no songs, FYI. (Surprising to hear Reed, the lifelong contrarian, submit to someone elses definition of a song, isnt it? Hes totally the type to refer to a half-hour of amp drone as a catchy tune.) Last October, the group did a similar two-night gig at REDCAT in Los Angeles, a recording of which Reed just released through his website as The Creation of the Universe. It might provide a preview of what hes got in store here; then again, it... More >>>